Robert Novak, legendary Washington columnist, is dead at 78. I worked for him for a mere two weeks. I was filling time between jobs, which, in this industry, can be short.

Commemorating him is tricky business — he famously said that he had no friends, merely sources and targets. His book, “The Prince of Darkness,” chronicled the foibles of the Washington establishment gained through a half century of classic shoe-leather journalism.

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